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Pbao Chouk Sao (1967)

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Cambodia
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How it feels

A girl who is actually an angel becomes human for 17 months to live among people. She falls in love with a man, but he goes off to war not knowing she can turn back into an angel and may be gone when he returns.

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What happens

Pao Chouk Saw is the story of a girl who was once an angel and later became a human for a particular reason. In order to return to her sisters as an angel again, she has to live in the human world with regular human beings for 17 whole months. She then ends up falling in love with a regular guy. But soon he has to leave her behind for a war without knowing that she is actually an angel taking form of a human being and that she can change back to an angel any time soon after he leaves for the war. He leaves having no idea that once he return from war, she may be gone forever. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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